The inclusion of women in anti-corruption efforts is more than achieving gender quotas, it is an important tool that could help to mitigate women’s experiences
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Inspire inclusion”, with its goal to encourage others to understand and value women’s involvement.
We acknowledge the role of women throughout history in shaping our societies; we often acknowledge that if women are unhappy with the progress of society, society changes, but we are yet to see women rolling up their sleeves against corruption even though the burden of corruption is unequally distributed and the scale tips a little harder on them.
Women can bring different perspectives to anti-corruption efforts to make visible the invisible forms of corruption such as “sexual corruption” or “sextortion”, a widespread form of corruption that we often overlook that disproportionately targets women and girls. This type of corruption becomes much more than tracing bank statements or following brown bags; instead it’s just silence, shame, stigma and a normalisation of a crime we all neglect.
The inclusion of women in anti-corruption efforts must be seen as more than just a token of appreciation or a nice to have to achieve gender quotas, but as an important tool that could help to mitigate women’s experiences of corruption. This argument for the inclusion of women in anti-corruption efforts should not be hijacked by the debate of whether women are less corrupt than men.
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